tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:/projects/13421114/elephabet-wants-to-be-an-e-book-and-poster-when-it/postsKickstarter: Elephabet wants to be an e-Book and Poster when it grows up!2013-06-29T14:01:05-04:00tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/5248232013-06-29T14:07:22-04:002013-06-29T14:07:22-04:00psssst! I have a new summer Kickstarter project!<p>Hey Beautiful People!!!</p><p>I'm writing with and update on my work--while I'm waiting for a (fingers crossed) publishing deal to come my way, I decided to embark on a <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13421114/the-bunny-with-a-toolbelt-multifunctional-card-dec" target="_blank">new summer Kickstarter project</a>--a deck of playing cards featuring over 55 original critters! There's just a little over a week left, and I'm super duper close to reaching my funding goal.</p><p>Kickstarter backers can grab a deck at only $10 ($16 international shipping) which is 66% of the future retail price! I'm also offering uncut card sheets, high resolution 8x10 prints of any card, and more!</p><p>The animals I'm creating for this deck are highly detailed and for $275, I am offering the original pieces mounted on a card storage box. (At the $200 level, you can have a custom pet on that box too!)</p><p>As in the past, you get updates on the progress of this project as I created it. I plan to work on it through the month of July and will ship in December at the very latest.</p><p>Thank you so much to everyone who's already backed the project--I know you're out there because I was 50% funded within a few days, but it's taken the past month to get to trickle upward to my current 95% status. Can you help me breathe a sigh of relief this weekend? I only have about $600 left to reach the basic funding goal at this point.</p><p>Here's some images highlighting some of the original work I've created for the project already. <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13421114/the-bunny-with-a-toolbelt-multifunctional-card-dec" target="_blank">More images and information on the Kickstarter page.</a></p><p>Thanks for your support of my past projects and for letting me infiltrate your inbox once again with my current summer project.</p><p>take care,<br>Hilary</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/5248112013-06-29T13:54:58-04:002013-06-29T13:54:58-04:00the Bunny with a Toolbelt multifunctional playing card deck!<p>Hey Beautiful People!!!</p><p>I'm writing with and update on my work--while I'm waiting for a publishing deal to come my way, I decided to embark on a new<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13421114/the-bunny-with-a-toolbelt-multifunctional-card-dec" target="_blank"> summer Kickstarter project</a>--a deck of playing cards featuring over 55 original critters! There's just a little over a week left, and I'm super duper close to reaching my funding goal.</p><p>Kickstarter backers can grab a deck at only $10 ($16 international shipping) which is 66% of the future retail price! I'm also offering uncut card sheets, high resolution 8x10 prints of any card, and more!</p><p>The animals I'm creating for this deck are highly detailed and for $275, I am offering the original pieces mounted on a card storage box. (At the $200 level, you can have a custom pet on that box too!)</p><p>As in the past, you get updates on the progress of this project as I created it. I plan to work on it through the month of July and will ship in December at the very latest.</p><p>Thank you so much to everyone who's already backed the project--I know you're out there because I was 50% funded within a few days, but it's taken the past month to get to trickle upward to my current 95% status. Can you help me breathe a sigh of relief this weekend? I only have about $600 left to reach the basic funding goal at this point.</p><p>Here's some images highlighting some of the original work I've created for the project already. <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13421114/the-bunny-with-a-toolbelt-multifunctional-card-dec" target="_blank">More images and information on the Kickstarter page. </a></p><p>Thanks for your support of my past projects and for letting me infiltrate your inbox once again with my current summer project. </p><p>take care,<br>Hilary</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/4371242013-03-25T15:07:37-04:002013-03-25T15:07:37-04:00update on Elephabet eBookThis post is for backers only. Please visit <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13421114/elephabet-wants-to-be-an-e-book-and-poster-when-it/posts/437124">Kickstarter.com</a> and log in to read.tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/3184512012-09-29T11:20:31-04:002012-09-29T11:20:31-04:00Pssst! Ready for some of those business tips I promised?This post is for backers only. Please visit <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13421114/elephabet-wants-to-be-an-e-book-and-poster-when-it/posts/318451">Kickstarter.com</a> and log in to read.tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/2766732012-07-28T12:40:44-04:002012-07-28T12:40:44-04:00Arfabet...only a few days left to get on board!<p>Hey Beautiful Person! </p><p>I am coming down the homestretch with the work for Arfabet and have been posting them on the Kickstarter page! <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13421114/bunny-with-a-toolbelts-arfabet-book/posts" target="_blank">Click here to see the dozen that are ready for their photo shoot next week!</a></p><p>I'm thrilled to have reached my Kickstarter goal last week but have a new mini-goal of raising an additional $2500 that I will put towards printing the second edition of Elephabet in hardback. If I can reach $10,277 by Friday on the <a href="http://kck.st/L4nsXs" target="_blank">Arfabet Kickstarter campaign</a>, I will put in the balance in order to make this second printing happen. There are a lot of great rewards for this Kickstarter at prices you definitely won't see anywhere else, so hop on board and let all your dog-loving friends know too. Thank you so much for your support of my work!!</p><p>And for all you cat people, here's a photo of Weegee with a sculpture of Portland's former mayor Vera Katz. See....dogz and katz can live in peace!</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/2648132012-07-11T11:17:52-04:002012-07-11T11:17:53-04:00Backer rewards update + Arfabet!!<p>Hey Beautiful People! </p><p>I shipped off the t-shirts earlier this week, so those of you who ordered those should be expecting them very soon! (I held back two because those pledges also included the poster, which is still in production and I will ship them together. You know who you are!) I expect to send off all of the original elephant sculptures and necklaces next week! The work's all done--I am merely awaiting the impending arrival of the DVD's, and then the packages will be sent to all points east, west, north and south. Those of you who ordered anything else, I am expecting to have all rewards delivered by September at the very latest. Thank you all so much one again for supporting this project!</p><p>In other news: I'm excited to announce that I recently launched my Kickstarter campaign for my second alphabet book that I'll publish this fall - Arfabet!</p><div class="template oembed" contenteditable="false" data-href="https://vimeo.com/45102233">
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<p>As I did with the original <a href="http://kck.st/q0DY45" target="_blank">Elephabet</a> campaign, I'll be posting updates as I create Arfabet that come directly to your mailbox as a Kickstarter backer. Click here to learn more about the new book and get on board today! This is a shorter campaign, with a little over three weeks left, so don't delay! Pictured below are just two of the great rewards you can have for your very own for supporting this project! There's also several pledge levels for custom figures of your very own dog, or a super long dachshund with any name on it!</p><p>Thanks for helping me make my all-important sophomore publication happen!<br>-Hilary</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/2398472012-06-04T00:12:05-04:002012-06-04T00:12:05-04:00Looks like we made it.....<p>Hello Beautiful People! Thank you soooooo very very much for supporting my Kickstarter campaign to bring Elephabet to the next level! I will be contacting you this week with the pertinent questions that will assist me in sending you your backer reward as soon as humanly possible. In the meantime, please enjoy this entertaining elephant video.</p><div class="template oembed" contenteditable="false" data-href="http://youtu.be/XP-AY3Q1iHc">
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<p>take care and thanks again!<br>Hilary</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/2373502012-05-30T23:21:11-04:002012-05-30T23:21:31-04:00inching closer with four days to go!<p>Hello Beautiful Person!</p><p>I'm coming down the homestretch with a nice burst of backers--thank you everyone for hopping on board! </p><p>Last weekend marked my last Portland-area event to celebrate Elephabet, so now I can focus on these last three days of this Kickstarter campaign. The ElePhoto booth was so much fun--if you missed it this time around, be sure to come to the <a href="http://albertamainst.org/whats-happening/street-fair/" target="_blank">Alberta Street Fair</a> in August because I'll be back at <a href="http://www.greenbeanbookspdx.com/" target="_blank">Green Bean Books</a>, ready to add your photo to the album! Here's some of the great portraits we took this past month for you to whet your appetite, and you want more, <a href="http://flic.kr/s/aHsjzkxNsw" target="_blank">click here to see the entire set!</a></p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/2337792012-05-24T18:28:50-04:002012-05-24T18:28:50-04:00Elephants? Elephants!<p>Hello Beautiful Person!</p><p>I live in Portland, Oregon, a city that respects elephants. It's recently made the national news that the Oregon Department of Transportation is accommodating our pregnant pachyderm at our zoo's sensitive ears and nerves by keeping down the noise levels on road construction this summer. <a href="http://www.kgw.com/home/ODOT-construction-protects-pregnant-elephant-152628375.html" target="_blank">Here's the full story</a>, if you don't believe me!</p><p>This update is dedicated to the amazing ideas from my fans and customers over the years! The <a href="http://bunnywithatoolbelt.blogspot.com/2012/04/pachyderm-portmanteau-contest.html" target="_blank">Pachyderm Portmanteau contest</a> is well underway with almost two dozen entries! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150903326998516.440918.47083708515&amp;type=3" target="_blank">Click here to see all the ones that have come in so far on the Bunny with a Toolbelt Facebook Page!</a></p><p>Here are a few images of some of my favorite elephant designs from the past few years, including several from Elephabet. Thanks for your support of this Kickstarter project!!! I'm not even halfway to my goal yet with 10 days to go, so if you could be so kind as to help me spread the word, I'd be ever so grateful.</p><p>take care,<br>Hilary</p>tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/2303072012-05-19T12:14:36-04:002012-05-19T12:14:36-04:00More Pachyderm Portmanteaus!<p>Yippie-ki-yay! Here's a few more entries in the <a href="http://bunnywithatoolbelt.blogspot.com/2012/04/pachyderm-portmanteau-contest.html" target="_blank">Pachyderm Portmanteau contest</a>--part of the <a href="http://www.bunnywithatoolbelt.com/Celebrate-Elephabet-this-May" target="_blank">free festivities this month to celebrate Elephabet!</a></p><p>Since these came in before the second deadline of May 21st, they each count as two entries in the contest! If one of these is the winner, I'll make it for the lucky artist! There's still time to get yours in this month, and if you send it to me before the 21st, each entry counts double! <a href="http://bunnywithatoolbelt.blogspot.com/2012/04/pachyderm-portmanteau-contest.html" target="_blank">Click here for full details on how to enter!</a></p><p>Of course, you may opt to pledge to my <a href="http://kck.st/IfztHr" target="_blank">Kickstarter campaign</a> at the top level and bypass the contest altogether--this guarantees that I will make an elephant from any custom design you submit! </p><p>If you're in the Portland area, I'll be having two hands on Pachyderm Portmanteau parties where you can draw and enter the contest, and have your photo taken in the <a href="http://www.flickr.com//photos/tooldiva/sets/72157629713056674/show/" target="_blank">ElePhoto booth</a>! </p><p><b>Pachyderm Portmanteau Party at- <a href="http://www.greenbeanbookspdx.com/" target="_blank">Green Bean Books</a></b>where: Green Bean Books, 1600 NE Alberta Street, Portland<br>when: Sunday, May 20, 2012, 1PM<br>cost: Free! registration encouraged- call (503) 954-2354 </p><p><b><br>Pachyderm Portmanteau Party at Tigard Public Library </b>where: <a href="http://www.tigard-or.gov/library/" target="_blank">Tigard Public Library</a>, 13500 SW Hall Blvd., Tigard, OR, (503) 718-2517<br>when: Saturday, May 26, 2-3:30 PM<br>cost: Free! (Elephabet books will be available for purchase at this event.)</p><div></div><div></div>